A Frame For Murder
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
When a priceless painting becomes the centrepiece of a deadly conspiracy, A Frame for Murder by Roger Simons draws readers into a taut, atmospheric world where the art world's glittering façade conceals treachery, greed, and cold-blooded violence. Set against a backdrop where beauty and brutality collide, the novel chronicles the unravelling of a meticulously constructed crime, pulling an unlikely investigator into a web of deception that threatens to consume everything — and everyone — in its path. Simons writes with the assured, clipped economy of the classic British crime tradition, presenting a narrative that is as much a character study as it is a whodunit. The art world setting lends the story a rich cultural texture, allowing the author to contrast the refined world of galleries and collectors with the raw ugliness of murder. With suspects as carefully constructed as the forgeries at the story's heart, A Frame for Murder keeps its cards close until the very last brushstroke — leaving the reader to wonder whether the truth, when finally revealed, is the most dangerous masterpiece of all.
Author: Roger Simons
Format: Hardback
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
When a priceless painting becomes the centrepiece of a deadly conspiracy, A Frame for Murder by Roger Simons draws readers into a taut, atmospheric world where the art world's glittering façade conceals treachery, greed, and cold-blooded violence. Set against a backdrop where beauty and brutality collide, the novel chronicles the unravelling of a meticulously constructed crime, pulling an unlikely investigator into a web of deception that threatens to consume everything — and everyone — in its path. Simons writes with the assured, clipped economy of the classic British crime tradition, presenting a narrative that is as much a character study as it is a whodunit. The art world setting lends the story a rich cultural texture, allowing the author to contrast the refined world of galleries and collectors with the raw ugliness of murder. With suspects as carefully constructed as the forgeries at the story's heart, A Frame for Murder keeps its cards close until the very last brushstroke — leaving the reader to wonder whether the truth, when finally revealed, is the most dangerous masterpiece of all.